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Summary of Students’ Evaluations

This
summary of students’ evaluations of Professor Souaiaia reflects data
compiled from the past 14 years; in this particular sample, the focus
is on three critical areas: workload, availability, grading practices,
and clarity. Other aspects such as methodology, preparedness,
effectiveness, and helpfulness were also evaluated and have received
similar scores.

Workload was reasonable

Instructor available to students

Grading was fair

Oral Communication Competence

Courses Taught at UWAverage: 4.4/5.0Based on 13 courses

4.3/5.0

4.6/5.0

4.3/5.0

4.5/5.0

Courses Taught at U of IAverage: 5.62/6.0Based on 21 courses

5.65/6.00

5.77/6.00

5.50/6.00

5.54/6.00

Students' Comments, as received by the Center for Teaching and other units within the University of Iowa:

"I
thoroughly enjoyed your courses and wanted to thank you for being such
an exceptional professor. It is evident that you sincerely care about
your students."

--Alison

"I
would like to thank you and show you my great appreciation, because you
have given me an idea on what I would like to do with my life... You
are absolutely an amazing teacher: You are energetic, and I can tell
that you love what you do. I only hope to take more classes from you.
Even if I was not a morning person, I was always excited to go to class
and intrigued by what I would learn next."

--Judi

In
a department full of opinions and theories, Dr. Souaiaia is most
certainly a beacon of hope for future generations. Since I'm a
religious studies minor, I've been through many professors who like to
hear themselves talk about what they think. However, Dr. Souaiaia does
not give his straight opinion about anything for that matter. In this
way he allows the students to think for themselves, rather than
regurgitate what they are learning. This helps us to learn how to think
instead of what to think, which is imperative outside of school. With
his great humor and quick whit, it is no wonder that students continue
to take his courses. He has taught me that it takes more than just
reading the materials to get a deeper understanding of it, and that
having an answer (though there may not be a correct one) is not as
important as getting to that answer by one's OWN means."